Two faces of the same verification round.
12-crawl returned to the homepage between links with a bare page.goto, and Plex
Web (signed out, so it renders its own sign-in iframe for its Plex-account flow)
keeps redirecting the top frame: Chromium cancelled our goto with
net::ERR_ABORTED, outside the try, so the whole crawl died — once as a 420 s
timeout in the deploy gate, once at 5.4 s on the same link. backHome() tolerates
that one error class and re-issues; any other error still propagates, and the
per-app verdict (guard settled, hostname, no authentik uidField, status < 500)
is unchanged. Plex was healthy throughout (container up 2 days, 32400 answering
HTTPS 401 / plain-HTTP empty reply), so this was app behaviour, not a fault —
recorded as gotcha 6 on the E2E page.
The 200,704 boot printed 5.5 GiB reserved and 74.1 GiB in all (not the ~5.4/~74
my arithmetic predicted), so every prose figure is re-keyed to the ledger, and
the runbook gains the second production-boot section: marker revision, pool
reservation, shape line, prompt-cache entry size, and the refusal contract at the
new ceiling (400 in 0.86 s naming 200704 and the 96,405-token overage, before any
prefill). Cost stated (two maximum-length conversations never coexist; the 180k
compaction target is unreachable inside a 155,648 window) and purchase stated
(1.7 GiB of page cache, 9.1 GiB against the 2026-10-06 shape).
Frank's call the same evening as the native-payload cutover: HALOGEN_CTX and
HALOGEN_KV_POOL_POSITIONS both 262144 -> 200704 (a multiple of 4096, the rung
frank-zealot already runs). The checkpoint's native window is 262,144 and the
engine serves anything below it, so this is a RAM decision, not a capability
limit: the KV reservation drops 7.2 GiB -> ~5.4 (the 2026-10-06 pool measured
14.6), and by the FLAGS.md law -- RAM the pool takes is RAM that n-gram table
loses -- the freed positions become page cache for the 47.68 GiB table that
long prompts read. Engine-side total ~74 GiB instead of 75.8.
The 400-zone law is invariant to the value, so the harness moves WITH the
ceiling: models.yml contextWindow 217088 -> 155648 = ceiling - 45056, keeping
the gap that absorbs the chars/4 under-count (worst-case request ~156.2k vs
the 200,704 ceiling, ~44k margin). Compaction now fires at 85% = 132,300 est
(~136k measured); the 180k target of the 262,144 era is unreachable because
the window itself is 155,648. maxTokens 45056 and the coupled
cap/timeout 65536/7200 are untouched.
Cost stated plainly: with pool == ctx, ONE maximum-length request fills the
pool, so two long conversations never coexist (two of <=100k do). Acceptable
because frank-dragoon carries only the slow role and the security-reviewer
subagent, not the interactive workhorse.
Seam re-keyed: the fit-law test now proves the invariant at the new pair, and
the pool law (ctx <= pool <= slots * ctx) still holds with pool == ctx.
Deploy verification for fcd7630 (22:20): healthy in ~12 s, e2e 33/33, and the
boot ledger settles the shape — 62.9 GiB weights locked (0.8 vision) + 7.2 GiB
KV in ONE 262,144-position pool (6,656 MiB, two slots) + 5.7 GiB working =
75.8 GiB in all, n-gram 47.68 GiB read from disk, prompt cache ON (12 entries),
MTP depth-2, no clamp line. Live probes: 27*59 -> 1593, tool call, red PNG ->
Red. The two KV figures are reconciled (engine preflight FORMULA 7.4 GiB
includes block scratch + per-slot O(1) state; the RESERVATION is 7.2).
Also corrects two stale claims: the retired swift15 rows named 200,192 ctx
(raised to 262,144 on 2026-10-07 inside that same era), and the OpenWebUI
frank-dragoon row's description is now re-keyed in the live DB (backup
webui.db.bak-20261017b).
New LLM/frank-dragoon-flash-server-v2-native.md carries the shape with the
three deliberate deviations from the card (served id, SPEC_ADAPT=0, engine
pin 0.16.2), the memory ledger with the PIN_TRUNK rejection, the full
measured A/B table, and the companion law (hardlinked stock peonist files,
engine-tool certified). The swift15 page is re-banned RETIRED 2026-10-06 →
10-17 with its rollback terms; both indexes and AGENTS.md (topology table,
service section, runbook index) are re-keyed, and the root index also stops
describing the halogen-27B page as ACTIVE.
Frank